Sentences with phrase «foundation hospitals»

He's uncomfortable with academies and, in a different way, with foundation hospitals.

The 2003 — 2004 votes on foundation hospitals and tuition fees did not decide the 2005 election.

Brown was always sensitive to charges that he was anti-reform, arguing instead that many of the Blairite proposals, such as the original Alan Milburn version of foundation hospitals, were ill thought - out, and that he had a better alternative strategy.

This change is designed to prevent the kind of egregious case of the passage of controversial legislation applying only to England against the wishes of a majority of England's MPs (as for instance when the second Blair government introduced foundation hospitals and top - up fees).

Stafford hospital has become the first foundation hospital to be put into special administration.

However, the threat of rebellions by their own party's backbench MPs often forces Governments to make concessions (under the Coalition, over foundation hospitals and under Labour over top - up fees and compensation for failed company pension schemes).

Those changes included allowing competition only in the interest of patients and based on quality rather than price, driving profits from foundation hospitals back into the NHS and building safeguards against conflicts of interest into the commissioning process.

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

We voted against foundation hospitals because we thought that ultimately it would have a knock - on effect on the money available through the Barnett formula for the NHS in Scotland.

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

The last Labour government passed several key pieces of legislation — including that introducing foundation hospitals and tuition fees — thanks to the votes of Scottish MPs whose constituents were unaffected, given Holyrood's control of health and education policy.

It happened with foundation hospitals.

There are long passages expressing his frustrations over public service reform and his conflicts with Brown on breaking up previous monopoly state provision, notably over academies, foundation hospitals and over tuition fees.

The double - count is weak if the issues are non-salient (foundation hospitals and university funding), AND if they are existential, as from 1885 to 1918.

The experiment with city academies and foundation hospitals will clearly continue, although their scarcity of number indicates Brown is more cautious of the idea than Blair was.

This proposal is currently being considered by the Conservatives - David Cameron has promised to look into the idea that only English MPs should be able to vote on laws that only affect England, such as top - up fees or foundation hospitals.

For most of his premiership, however, Tony Blair made policy: on privatisation and on the Iraq war, on faith schools and foundation hospitals.

On at least three issues - tuition fees, hunting and foundation hospitals - England has had laws imposed upon it by MPs from other parts of the UK that were not affected by the legislation in question.

This did much to somehow turn the rather technical non-issue of the powers of foundation hospitals - a subject which very few voters will ever comprehend - into some totemic ideological battle.